Subj : Chores
To : Dave Drum
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Fri May 17 2024 17:08:22
Hi Dave,
Back home from our wanderings; we were out first in western NY for a
few days, then in the Berlin/Millersburg, Ohio region for about a week.
Had some good eating out in both places.
DD> wheel and my girl friend started to put paper towels in the drip
tray.
DD> When I asked she said "Make it easier to clean up." I told her "That's
DD> why I do the cooking and you do te dishes. The drippings are the base
DD> for the gravy."
RH> Whoops! Hopefully you were able to salvage enough drippings to make a
RH> decent gravy.
DD> It was "early days" and the chicken hadn't started sweating any fat
DD> yet. PHEW!
Good catch then.
DD> I prefer the rotissiere - but if you've got the stuff/room in your RV.
DD> go for it. Bv)=
RH> Main meals are furnished as part of the rally for the next few days.
RH> After the rally we're going to stop at the Creation Museum and then
RH> head home. RV has to go into the shop for a bit, hopefully work will be
RH> finishe before our next trip.
DD> Nothing structural I hope. My brother offered my a Winnebago motor
DD> home he has sitting in his side yard. It's ben sitting for so long
DD> that all of the batteries will need replacing. And all six tires
DD> only flat - but dry rotted. And I shudder to think of the which are
DD> not condition of the belts and hoses in the engine bay.
DD> In this case - Free ... isn't.
RH> Bits and pieces of things mostly, covered by the warranty. We think it
RH> was either a Monday afternoon or Friday morning model, some nice
RH> features and some "What were they thinking.......?" features. A piece
RH> of non warranty work is going to be replacing one side--the aluminum
RH> got creased good by a tree branch in TX.
DD> OWTCH. It always hurts more when it's self inflicted.
The repair shop will have some more work to do now. Stopped for gas
yesterday in Beckley, WVA at a Sam's Club. To get to the station, had to
go up a hill, then make a left turn. Steve started turning, camper
doesn't swing as wide as the truck so he caught the back end of another
pickup truck. From what I understand, relativly light damage to the
truck but a good scrape along the lower (opposite, go figure) side of
the camper. Steve said that the cop that checked them out said that it's
not the first accident there so it sounds like the road needs to be
redesigned.
DD> And that doesn't mean that the mice haven't been eating wires DD>
throughout the unit - not just on the engine.
RH> Sound like you're better off without it; I'd hate to think of how much
RH> money would have to be sunk into it to make it even basically road
RH> worthy.
DD> 6 General (my preferred brand) 11R22.5 tires @ U$550/tire
DD> 3 Deep Cycle Marine/RV batteries @ U$250
DD> Just to get started. That's not a money pit. It's a canyon. Bv)=
A rather grand one at that.
RH> We've been cooking indoors for the most part, not done anything major
RH> so far, even tho brought stuff to do so. We ate out last night with
RH> some of the Rally folks at a Penn. Dutch place, buffet had a lot of
RH> good stuff so I just took little bits of maybe half a dozen things plus
RH> about the same on the salad bar. Went to the Smucker's store in the
RH> afternoon--lots of nothing we needed so went on to the Coblinz
RH> chocolate place and spent some money there. (G)
DD> Buffets can be a good thing or a hazard. With the reduction in
DD> capacity as I age out it's hard to get my "money's worth" at an AYCE
DD> place. If
DD> I eat too much I'm either miserable or so carb-loaded that all I want
DD> is a soft spot and a nap. Bv0=
I try to go easy, with second buffet I asked for a piece of
strawberry/rhubarb pie--to go. It was good, but not great.
DD> Still, sometimes on a weeked morning I'll hit the Golden Corral's AYCE
DD> breakfast and pig out on bacon and some really good cinnamon rolls -
DD> of course with hash-brown casserole, eggs, sausage gravy. etc. But,
DD> then I won't eat anything for the rest of the day .... uuually.
Our Golden Corral closed, building became a ghost kitchen for several
take out places.
We got some pastries (was supposed to be just doughnuts) yesterday at
the end of the rally. Steve brought home a couple of about 12" long,
probably close to 6" round creme filled with thick icing (one maple, one
chocolate) pastries. He also had a couple of probably 8" diameter
"snails". I had about 4" of the maple pastry yesteray, about 6" of one
section of the snail today, both for breakfast. Others will be consumed
over the next couple of days.
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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